In a town that expects him to follow in his Olympic-medalist father’s footsteps, Y/N has spent his whole life training to become hockey’s next big star. With scouts watching and a championship season underway, the pressure to live up to his father—who also coaches the team—begins to feel suffocating. As Y/N questions his father’s controlling methods and clashes with a talented new transfer player who refuses to see him as the coach’s favorite, tensions rise both on and off the ice. Now, during h
Through championship games, late-night phone calls, and moments neither of them knows how to explain, their friendship begins to shift into something deeper. When distance, expectations, and the fear of ruining the one relationship that matters most threaten to pull them apart, Macklin and Y/N are forced to face the truth they’ve been avoiding for years.
Between family rivalries, teammates who push him harder than ever, and a childhood friend who’s suddenly impossible to ignore, Ethan’s about to discover that some goals aren’t measured in points—they’re measured in hearts.
The Bennett twins have always been inseparable on and off the ice—but as scouts arrive, a new baby looms, and hidden rivalries simmer, cracks begin to form between them that threaten everything they’ve built. In the chaos of high-stakes games, family pressure, and first love, they’ll have to decide whether brotherhood can survive the ice… or if winning has a higher cost than they ever imagined.
People expect him to follow the same path. Same league. Same success. Same name on the back of a jersey. Cal MacLeod is starting to wonder what happens if he doesn’t.
Raised in the shadows of the San Jose Sharks locker room, Mateo “Teo” Reyes never had a normal childhood—only ice rinks, broken promises, and a team that became his family. Now 18 and on the edge of the NHL Draft, he has everything to prove… and a past that refuses to stay off the ice.
Evan Hayes, a top college hockey prospect, has his future mapped out—until he meets his coach’s quiet, perceptive son, Noah. As their connection grows, Evan is forced to confront feelings he’s long ignored, putting his identity and career at risk. He must choose between the life he’s planned and the truth he’s afraid to face.
Everyone knows the Hughes brothers—but no one really knows their sister. As Lila Hughes steps into the spotlight at University of Michigan, she has to prove she’s more than a last name… even if the world refuses to see her as anything else.
Tate Andersson has spent his life learning how to stop everything coming his way. But nothing prepared him for leaving the one person who never needed to be saved.
By the time Evan Laurent was nineteen years old, Canada already knew his name. Strangers debated his future on television. Kids wore his jersey to school. NHL scouts filled entire arena sections just to watch him take warmups. But none of them knew the truth. Evan Laurent had no idea who he was without hockey.
But no one ever told Will Smith what it would feel like to chase everything he’s ever wanted… while risking the one person who’s been there since the start.
He was raised to earn everything—goals, attention, love. But the first girl who doesn’t ask anything from him might be the one thing he doesn’t know how to win.
The last person he expects to break through his carefully built walls is the quiet intern who refuses to treat him like he’s untouchable… and might be the only one who sees exactly where he’s breaking.
Kennedy Blake has spent most of her life proving herself on the ice—first against boys, then under the weight of her brothers’ NHL fame. Now a high school senior on a girls’ hockey team, she’s fast, relentless, and expected to be unstoppable. But when she meets Sienna, a quiet, artistic classmate who doesn’t play hockey at all, Kennedy discovers there’s a world beyond the rink—and a connection that challenges everything she thought she knew about herself.
If someone had told me my biggest challenge during my draft year wouldn’t be hockey, I would’ve laughed. Then I met Riley Carter. And suddenly winning her over mattered more than anything happening on the ice.
One rule. Three players. And a team already starting to crack under the pressure. Because the fastest way to lose a game… is to turn on each other. And Lena? She might be the reason they do.
Canada’s brightest NHL prospect could handle the pressure, the fame, and the expectations. What he couldn’t handle anymore was the pain he refused to tell anyone about.